Congress chief Rahul Gandhi: Jobs for youth, market for farmers are top priorities for People’s Front in Telangana

Hyderabad:Congress president Rahul Gandhi has declared that showing profit to farmers and creating jobs to youths would be the two immediate priorities for the People’s Front, if voted to power on December 7 Telangana elections.

Rahul and Chandrababu Naidu concluded their campaign for the Telangana Assembly elections by addressing a joint media conference in Hyderabad on Wednesday. They carried out the joint campaign during the day. They wound up the media conference at the tick of 4.59 pm, abiding by the poll code.

The Congress president said the People’s Front (Praja Kootami) has an agenda to provide hope on the future and show a way to the farmers, who are in distress now.

He also said that the Front government would be run by the people. “Just like we are accommodating everyone talk here (all the partners of the Front were given time to speak at the media interaction), our government will accommodate every section.”

In a crucial decision following the High Court of Hyderabad taking serious view of the ‘unwarranted arrest’ of Telangana Congress Committee working president A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday, the Election Commission of India transferred Vikarabad police superintendent T Annapurna and posted Avinash Mohanty as the new SP. Avinash was asked to take the charge immediately.

Rahul found that Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party president and caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has become nervous sensing the defeat of his party in the upcoming elections. “His body language, his abusive language reflect his nervousness,” Rahul said.

Congress, Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Communist Party of India (CPI), Telangana Jana Samithi and Telangana Inti Party have formed a grand alliance to fight TRS, which is fighting the polls alone. The BJP is also contesting alone.

Rahul claimed that the chemistry between the Congress and TDP workers is working well. “There is no need to convince them. They have been working together. Today also I addressed a huge rally,” Rahul said.

The Congress and TDP have taken the Telangana elections very seriously. They set aside their 37 years of differences to take on the KCR government in Telangana and vowed to move with the spirit till dethroning PM Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre next year. Both Rahul and Naidu have spared huge amount of time on campaigning here.

“Telangana elections are a beginning to change the national political scenario,” Naidu said. Terming both Modi and KCR as divisive leaders, he alleged that Modi divides people on religious lines and KCR on regional lines.